So what’s new in DuhSantistan?

This sound like you could stand outside someone's house holding up a sign supporting the person living inside without violating this new law; plus, once open carry passes, you could hold up a sign supporting the person inside while your carrying an M15 rifle. Neato.

 

It's actually illegal both federally and state law of Virginia. Whoever told you is lying to you.

 

Try again

Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc.

 

DeSantis’ office considered a bill to target libel laws, records show

A top staffer for Gov. Ron DeSantis worked on a proposal that sought to challenge decades-old First Amendment protections for the news media and make it easier for high-profile people to win defamation lawsuits, according to documents obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

The idea didn’t make the 2022 legislative session’s agenda. A bill was never filed, according to Florida’s First Amendment Foundation.

But public records show Stephanie Kopelousos, DeSantis’ legislative affairs director, shared a draft proposal and briefing document just before lawmakers kicked off their annual session on Jan. 11. Those documents targeted New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a 1964 landmark Supreme Court decision that made it extremely difficult for public officials to win a libel case.

A briefing document declared that the goal was to end federal standards established in the Times ruling and make defamation purely a matter of state law.

 

He has learned from the master.

As for the bill he signed, it should be called the Get Off My Lawn Act.

 

If this is actually equally enforced, I am for it.

School board and city council members have had people outside their houses for refusing to ban non-existent CRT books in schools. Homes should be off limits.

 

Damn it’s great to live in Florida

 

From the bill summary:

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Florida law currently criminalizes a number of activities relating to trespassing on specified property and unlawful assemblies, but does not specifically prohibit a nonviolent gathering of persons in the public areas of a residential neighborhood, unless such gathering takes place during specified periods of time before or after a funeral or burial.

The bill provides that Florida has a significant interest in protecting the tranquility and privacy of the home and protecting citizens from the detrimental effect of targeted picketing, and that the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized this interest by upholding a challenged ordinance restricting residential picketing in Frisby v. Schultz, 487 U.S. 474 (1988). The bill creates s. 810.15, F.S., to prohibit a person from picketing or protesting before or about a person’s dwelling with the intent to harass or disturb that person. An offense of residential picketing is punishable as a second degree misdemeanor.

Under the bill, a “dwelling” means any building, structure, or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families.

The bill requires a law enforcement officer, prior to making an arrest for a residential picketing offense, to provide a warning to any person picketing or protesting outside of a person’s dwelling to immediately and peaceably disperse. Under the bill, a law enforcement officer may arrest a person for residential picketing only if the person does not immediately and peaceably disperse after the required warning.

https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sect...entType=Analysis&BillNumber=1571&Session=2022
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TBL, the bill targets targeted bullying at a person's residence.

I don't see the problem.

Keep your bullying to the public forum, leave people's houses alone. That's bush league bullshit, and well within the legislature's rights to protect.

 

Yeah, that should solve the drug problem. Mass incarceration has completely solved it thus far. Let's try it some more!

 

Guess what else is new? 34.1 domestic vistors came to Florida in Q1 this year, beating the 2019 record by 2.5 million visitors. Man, I don't get it. Why would people come to just a terrible state run by a terrible Gov? I'm confused.

 

Interesting. Does the 0.1 person represent a baby?

 

I can only speak for myself, but I love to get down to South Beach to party a few times a year. Wouldn’t want to live there and wouldn’t make as much $, but I like going there to spend $.

 

Wouldn't be the first time the shitty Democratic Party in this state supported a law attacking free speech. Although, it's certainly rarer they do it than the shitty Republican Party and DeSantis. DeSantis really, really hates the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause.

 

No, no, that will be it. That will be what finally wins the war on drugs!

 

Unless the Florida Legislature has secret access to a time travel machine, a bill that had its final legislative action (passing both the House and Senate) in early March unequivocally was not passed because of protests in mid-May.

 

Nah, 34.1 million is a heck of a number though.

 

Come on many of the more left leaning posters agree and have noted it had BIPARTISAN SUPPORT